Vol 37 No 14 | NIGERIA Commonwealth collapse 5th July 1996 Foreign minister Ikimi and his team bamboozle Marlborough House Nigeria's delegation of 17 emerged victorious from its closed-door confrontation with the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group in London on 24-25 June. Led by Foreign Minister Tom Ikimi, it...
Vol 37 No 13 | NIGERIA Fat margins 21st June 1996 Oil traders and their sponsors may grumble that prices are low. But for the well-connected trader Nigeria is offering some of the best returns around. A comparison of...
Vol 37 No 10 | NIGERIA Missing person 10th May 1996 Poison pen letters and Abacha's absences are causing concern in Abuja What can account for General Sani Abacha's continuing absences from public functions? One reason suggested by those close to the Aso Rock headquarters is that Abacha and his...
Vol 37 No 9 | NIGERIA Sacking the Sultan 26th April 1996 Dethroning Dasuki and cocking a snook at the Commonwealth will not solve the crisis These are busy days for General Sani Abacha. Critics of his slow work rate and his indecisiveness are revising their opinions. In one week, he has sacked the...
Vol 37 No 8 | NIGERIA Changing the guard 12th April 1996 General Sani Abacha's sacking of his Chief of Army Staff, Major General Alwali Kazir, and Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice-Marshall Femi John Femi, was a punishment, we...
Vol 37 No 6 | NIGERIA Money and the military 15th March 1996 As Washington lobbies Europe for sanctions on the soldiers in Abuja, business gives them a vote of confidence In a bizarre way, business is learning to live with, if not to love, General Sani Abacha. For those not exercised by questions of human rights, democracy or...
Vol 37 No 6 | NIGERIA Advocates, advisors and accountants 15th March 1996 No one could describe General Sani Abacha as a convert to market economics yet the policy of 'guided deregulation' begun last year is certainly his own. Whilst he...
Vol 37 No 4 | NIGERIA Sanctions steam 16th February 1996 A head of steam is again building up for tougher sanctions against General Sani Abacha's government. A January review in Washington, we hear, considered three categories of sanction:...
Vol 37 No 3 | NIGERIA Who's killing who? 2nd February 1996 Bombings and arms caches mean that both sides are upping the stakes in the political crisis The rumblings are getting more ominous. General Sani Abacha's son killed in a plane crash, bombings in the north, tons of guns and ammunition found on the Benin...
Vol 7 No 3 | NIGERIA The change is permanent 4th February 1966 1966 was the year for military coups, in both French and English-speaking West and Equatorial Africa. The most serious by far for us was that in Nigeria Nigeria has changed for ever. It has got a military regime which the great mass of the population has accepted – in the South and among intellectuals, with... READ FOR FREE